Refugees & Asylum Seekers

We’re a women’s organisation that assists women affected by physical as well as mental, financial, sexual and emotional domestic abuse. Our guiding principle is that we will never turn our back on a woman in need of our help. And we won’t give in to bureaucracy at the expense of real lives.

Africa Advocacy Foundation (AAF) is a regsitered charity founded in 1996 with the aim of supporting and empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged people to access to the resources necessary for the improvement of their health, education and other life opportunities.

Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women’s Centre seeks to serve the health, welfare, educational and cultural needs of Moroccan and Arabic-speaking women and their families resident in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and London-wide.

Asylum Help, part of the Migrant Help organisation, provides free independent advice and guidance to asylum seekers across the UK. Migrant Help is a UK charity that has been delivering support services to migrants in the UK since 1963.

Refugees seeking work can face significant barriers. Breaking Barriers work with refugees in the UK to break these barriers down and help them find meaningful employment.They offer employability training, work experience and job opportunities.

Freedom from Torture, formerly the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, has been working for more than 30 years to provide direct clinical services to survivors of torture who arrive in the UK, as well as striving to protect and promote their rights. Since its inception, over 50,000 individuals have been referred for help.

The relief of poverty, sickness and distress of members of the community particularly those of Cypriot, Kurdish or Turkish decent who are residents in the London by providing such persons with free and confidential advice, assistance, representation, counselling, translating and interpreting services in matter of asylum, immigration, money, debts, welfare benefits, housing, health, education, training and employment.

We have distinct expertise in working with marginalised foreign national (FN); black, minority ethnic and refugee (BMER) women in prison, in community, and in detention, as well as with men in custodial settings where this complements our work with women.

The Home Learning Project in London provides volunteer English language (ESOL) teachers and learning mentors who give home-based one-to-one English language tuition and support to refugees who are unable to leave their homes, often due to mental health issues arising from trauma experienced in their countries of origin.

Immigration Advice Service is an immigration firm that provides assistance to both individual and corporate clients, including businesses and charities of all sizes, entrepreneurs, overseas investors, families and students.

IKWRO’s mission is to protect Middle Eastern and Afghan women and girls who are at risk of ‘honour’ based violence, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation and domestic violence and to promote their rights.